Initiation: An Equestrian Romance (Freedom to Be Me Book 1)

Alexa Connor is back home after twenty-five years, once a top-level Grand Prix competitor in the equestrian sport of dressage, she returns home to find herself falling in love with her former trainer and team mate Mike Landon. Together they embark on a wild, passionate exploration of their own search for sexual freedom and expression. The lifestyle is a completely foreign world to Alexa who must stare down her own fears and inhibitions in order to gain the freedom she so desperately craves. When Mike first introduces her to his world Alexa is overwhelmed with mixed emotions of accepting the highly intriguing and erotic pleasures offered by the secret open lifestyle that is now part of Mikes world. After years of loneliness, broken marriages, and their share of bad relationships Alexa and Mike find themselves on a journey of sexual exploration and passion that brings them closer than they ever dreamed of finding the fairytale romance they once dreamed of as teenagers. But when a strange twist of fate brings Alexas past into the mix she is forced to reveal a secret of her own that she spent a lifetime running away from if she can ever hope to find the peace that has eluded her all these years. When Andre Obrien, their former teammate and co-owner of the world-class equestrian center returns from Europe to find out that Alexa has come back home for the first time since the accident, he has mixed emotions about her return. The three of them had once been a formidable team in the dressage world until her accident had pulled them all apart. The last time he had seen her was as they carried her into the ambulance. After her recovery, she had walked out of their lives and never looked back. She had been more to him than just a teammate and best friend and her rejection had left him cold and disillusioned. Believing that true love did not exist, Andre had never married and had devoted his entire life to the sport and the training center. Now she was back. Mike is stunned to learn the real reason she walked away from the sport and out of his life. After a freak accident at an event in Reno, Alexa lost more than just her beloved dressage mare Gabri, she also lost the two things she had wanted most in the world and she walked away from the sport forever vowing never to ride again. Unsure if he will ever be able to accept her choices, Mike may just lose the one woman on the planet that he has spent a lifetime trying to find. Will love be enough to overcome the barriers between them when Alexa challenges his deep-seated beliefs and commitment to living in an open lifestyle with a partner that can accept him for who he is and not for his money Alexa has a choice of her own to make and that choice may very well decide both of their fates.